House at Croft an Righ, Waverley Place, Abbeyhill

Category

Library Item

Item no

18118

Title

House at Croft an Righ, Waverley Place, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh

Description

A white painted house with a tiled roof and chimney stacks. There is a ladder resting on the roof at the rignt side. In the foreground there are carts, one placed on the right and another under cover of an outbuilding on the opposite side. There is a hen on the cobbled courtyard in front of the house.

Artist / maker

Smith, John

Date

1927

Size

6.9 x 11.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This is a photograph from the book 'Origin, nomenclature and location of various houses and streets in Edinburgh'. Waverley Place, like other place names monikered "Waverley" is named after Sir Walter Scott's novel of the same name. Croft an righ is widely believed to mean croft of the King, but is more likely derived from Croftangry, a term dating from 1497 and meaning a fenced grazing area within a croft. The corrupted spelling has appeared only since the early 1800's.

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